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trønderen wrote:

I guess that pointing out in which ways would violate the rules of The Lounge.

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Early tall-building designers, fearing a fire on the 13th floor, or fearing tenants' superstitions about the rumor, decided to omit having a 13th floor listed on their elevator numbering. This practice became commonplace, and eventually found its way into American mainstream culture and building design.

Strings.Mid Method (Microsoft.VisualBasic) | Microsoft Learn[^]:

VB.NET

' Creates text string.
Dim testString As String = "Mid Function Demo"
' Returns "Mid".
Dim firstWord As String = Mid(testString, 1, 3)
' Returns "Demo".
Dim lastWord As String = Mid(testString, 14, 4)
' Returns "Function Demo".
Dim midWords As String = Mid(testString, 5)

Arrays - Visual Basic | Microsoft Learn[^]

VB.NET

' Declare a single-dimension array of 5 numbers.
Dim numbers(4) As Integer

Dim numbers(1 To 42)

Richard Deeming wrote:

The lower bound was optional, and the default could be changed by using the Option Base setting, leading to confusing code with hard to find bugs.